CARACAS, Venezuela ? The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.
Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including the actor Danny Glover and the Princeton University scholar Cornel West that met the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday. Some in the group attended Chavez's television and radio broadcast Sunday.
"No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people ... support your revolution," Belafonte told Chavez during the broadcast.
The 78-year-old Belafonte, famous for his calypso-inspired music, including the "Day-O" song, was a close collaborator of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and is now a UNICEF goodwill ambassador. He also has been outspoken in criticizing the U.S. embargo of Cuba.
Chavez said he believes deeply in the struggle for justice by blacks, both in the U.S. and Venezuela.
"Although we may not believe it, there continues to be great discrimination here against black people," Chavez said, urging his government to redouble its efforts to prevent discrimination.
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Originally posted by: KarenMarie
ppl listen to belafonte?
oh, and shouldnt this be in P&N?
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: KarenMarie
ppl listen to belafonte?
oh, and shouldnt this be in P&N?
I PM'ed the Mod account to have this thread moved there, my bad!
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world"
Accurate.
Originally posted by: BBond
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world"
Accurate.
QFT
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
Originally posted by: BBond
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world"
Accurate.
QFT
*Psst* You forgot to call him a Nazi too. :roll:
Originally posted by: BBond
Just ask those Iraqi civilians that Bush attacked for no reason.
Oh, that's right. You can't ask them. They're dead.
Terrorists kill innocent people, right? What did all those Iraqi civilians do to deserve this. If your answer is nothing then to them Bush is a terrorist just the same as bin Laden is for killing all of those innocent Americans who did nothing to him.
He's an idiot why, just because you disagree with him? Does anyone listen to your music?Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Nice to see the trolls have arrived in this thread.
Belafonte is an idiot, and should just stick to singing, not that I know anyone who listens to his music anyways.
After a fashion. His orders have killed tens of thousands more innocent people than Osama bin Laden, for example. Much of the world therefore sees Bush as a terrorist just as much as we see OBL as one. Most of the Western world is unlikely to consider Bush a "terrorist", of course, but "war criminal" ... that's a different story.Calling Bush a terrorist is a bit extreme, although some of you don't approve of the job he's done. That I can understand, but a terrorist? :disgust:
Those innocent Iraqi civilians never signed up for "the job", and they posed no threat to the United States. Their deaths could have been avoided. That's why wars must be a last resort.Originally posted by: compuwiz1
I don't know of a war in history, where there were no civilians killed. That's a hazard of the job. I'm sure Bush just said kill everybody in sight....yeah right!Originally posted by: BBond
Just ask those Iraqi civilians that Bush attacked for no reason.
Oh, that's right. You can't ask them. They're dead.
Terrorists kill innocent people, right? What did all those Iraqi civilians do to deserve this. If your answer is nothing then to them Bush is a terrorist just the same as bin Laden is for killing all of those innocent Americans who did nothing to him.
Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Originally posted by: BBond
Just ask those Iraqi civilians that Bush attacked for no reason.
Oh, that's right. You can't ask them. They're dead.
Terrorists kill innocent people, right? What did all those Iraqi civilians do to deserve this. If your answer is nothing then to them Bush is a terrorist just the same as bin Laden is for killing all of those innocent Americans who did nothing to him.
I don't know of a war in history, where there were no civilians killed. That's a hazard of the job. I'm sure Bush just said kill everybody in sight....yeah right!
Originally posted by: BBond
Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Originally posted by: BBond
Just ask those Iraqi civilians that Bush attacked for no reason.
Oh, that's right. You can't ask them. They're dead.
Terrorists kill innocent people, right? What did all those Iraqi civilians do to deserve this. If your answer is nothing then to them Bush is a terrorist just the same as bin Laden is for killing all of those innocent Americans who did nothing to him.
I don't know of a war in history, where there were no civilians killed. That's a hazard of the job. I'm sure Bush just said kill everybody in sight....yeah right!
That's why the "leader of the free world" isn't supposed to tell lies that lead to unprovoked invasions that lead to tens of thousands of dead civilians. Because the "leader of the free world" is supposed to have enough common sense to realize that wars kill civilians.
Maybe the profit incentive made Bush forget. After all, what are a few tens of thousands of innocent civilian lives when there are BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to be made?
Bush is not only a terrorist, he's a war profiteer too.
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
When did Venezuela become a dictatorship? The CIA fact book says Chavez was elected by popular vote. So does FOX have more up to date info on this, or are they just FOS?
Oh, and as for Belafonte's comment, here is the definition of terrorism. Looks like the arugment hinges on if you belive it is legal to invade another country on false pretences, and if not then our attack on Iraq was clearly an act of terroism.